About Carol McEwan - Scottish Landscape Artist
The artist
Dundee-based artist, Carol McEwan, creates art prints from her favourite Scottish landscape photographs.
“Searching for Scottish art prints whilst decorating my own home, I wanted something different as opposed to the usual IKEA pictures on my wall. I combined my creative skills in graphic design and my passion for interiors to create artwork from my own photos of the Scottish countryside.
In my previous life as a fashion designer, I lived all over England and often travelled abroad. I would always get homesick for Scotland, so every time I went back home I’d take photographs of the scenery I missed so much.
I created my first print from one of these photos, Broughty Ferry Beach, to remind me of the Dundee seaside. With a calming, neutral colour palette it quickly also became a customer favourite.
After living in Glasgow for a wee while, I happily moved back to Dundee (my hometown) with hubby & kitty cats in tow.
As well as selling my art prints online and in gift shops, I run a small, graphic design business called the Wee Design Studio. I work out of a small home studio, where I love being creative every day.”
Carol McEwan, artist & designer, Dundee, Scotland.
The Creative Process - from photo to artwork
To create her artwork, Carol first starts by photographing some of her favourite places, from beaches in Angus to Highland lochs & mountains in Perthshire.
She then opens a photograph on her iMac and manipulates it by adding textures, colours and effects. A Highland print for example, may include a scan of local tweed fabric in the hills. A seascape might have a closeup of sand on its beach and watercolour paint layers added to the sea.
The overall result is a more subtle, painterly effect which adds an ethereal quality to the original photograph. So rather than just being a visual representation of a place, there’s more of an atmosphere about it.
This process takes many, many hours to achieve just the right combination of depth, colour and texture which adds a new dimension to the image, bringing the original subject more alive but also making it more abstract at the same time.
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Print Quality & Materials
All giclée prints are:
- Professionally printed in Scotland.
- Printed using high-quality pigment inks for a superior fade resistance, lasting a generation.
- Printed on Artsure-approved, archival-quality 310gsm fine art paper.
Carol’s art prints can be bought online as well as in “real life” in selected gift & homeware stockists throughout Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow & Perthshire etc.
Keep up to date with any events where you can meet Carol and view her prints by checking out the news page or following on social media.
Contact Carol today if you have any questions or queries about artwork or commissions.
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